would you collect rent from your parents?

[Dancing Fire]

 

[IloveAsschers13]

nope.

 

[Hudson_Hawk]

absolutely not.

 

[iheartscience]

Of course-I don''t want them thinking they can get a free ride! This is the real world!

 

[steph72276]

Never

 

[Rachel9]

No!

 

[somethingshiny]

No. However, they would be expected to buy their own beer and cigarettes.

 

[Maisie]

Date: 3/17/2010 2:01:59 PM
Author: somethingshiny
No. However, they would be expected to buy their own beer and cigarettes.

 

[sunnyd]

After all that they''ve paid for in the last 20-odd years? No way!!

 

[AprilBaby]

Nope.

 

[lilyfoot]

No.

In the (far) future, I would love for FI''s mom to live with us, and I wouldn''t dream of having her pay "rent".

 

[janinegirly]

DF, are you asking for any particular reason?

Answer is obvious No. Rent from working kids over 21, but not parents..that's ridiculous.

 

[Maisie]

I have five children. When I am old I am going to stay with them in rotation so they don''t get tired of me! I am intending on being very badly behaved and opinionated. I can''t wait.

 

[sbde]

Date: 3/17/2010 3:04:54 PM
Author: Maisie
I have five children. When I am old I am going to stay with them in rotation so they don''t get tired of me! I am intending on being very badly behaved and opinionated. I can''t wait.

love it

!!

as to the original question - no i would never charge my parents rent.

 

[upgrade]

Rent? No. If they wanted to contribute something small to household expenses and were in a position to do so, I would accept that.

My dh''s grandmother lives in a suite at his parents'' house. She''s been there for almost 20 years now and she pays $50 a month ''rent'' for the suite. They cook her meals for her, so really, it''s just a little contribution towards the grocery bill and the insane amount of utilities she uses, since she heats her apt to about 400 degrees at all times. The real purpose is so that she feels like she''s contributing.

 

[Hest88]

Absolutely not. Even if they lived rent-free for decades it would never equal what they spent raising me and putting me through college.

Granted, if I had drug addicted parents who were always owing money to the Mob and various bookies, I might have a different answer!

 

[jewelerman]

nope...but my father who has lived with my sister and my brother insists on paying some rent and helping with the yard work!

 

[zhuzhu]

never!

 

[Mrs Mitchell]

Yes, it would help them to learn about budgeting and the value of money. I would put the rent they paid aside and give them it all back as a deposit towards a nursing home...

 

[Gailey]

Date: 3/17/2010 4:09:47 PM
Author: Mrs Mitchell
Yes, it would help them to learn about budgeting and the value of money. I would put the rent they paid aside and give them it all back as a deposit towards a nursing home...

The last time my Mum came to stay with me, she brought me a wall plaque that said, "Be nice to your children, they will be choosing your nursing home".

 

[Gailey]

Date: 3/17/2010 3:04:54 PM
Author: Maisie
I have five children. When I am old I am going to stay with them in rotation so they don''t get tired of me! I am intending on being very badly behaved and opinionated. I can''t wait.

Fabulous idea Maisie. Make sure you never clean your room, regularly suck up and block the hoover with dirty socks and keep a varied selection of **** under your mattress. Oh and don''t forget the sleepovers!

 

[Mrs Mitchell]

Hahahaha!
When I''m old, I fully intend to wake Amelia by rigging up a baby monitor and crying through it to let her know I have hurled my stuffed giraffe across the room and would now like it back...

 

[Natylad]

Maisie, you''re sooooo funny!!!

And the answer to the question is no! My parents have even bought me my appartment as a gift! Imagine me making them pay rent in order to live in the house that they themselves have paid for!!!

But even if they hadn''t paid a dollar for it, still, they have paid a lot and they have suffered a lot in order to raise me...Did they ask me to give them back the money that they have spent raising me for the last...ehm...35 years???

In any case, i don''t think they''d ever want to live either with me or my brother...they prefer having their own place and their peace of mind and actually they''re trying to get rid of us but in vain...we''re always going to their place and hung around there!!!

(mom''s home made food is amazing

).

 

[Vancity]

Why? What have you heard on the street, DF?

My folks have fallen on hard times? They''re not making their monthly payments?

*shakes head*

I told them NOT to invest in that bogus Nude Carwash idea!

 

[zoebartlett]

Nope. I wouldn''t feel comfortable accepting money from them if they needed to move in with us if one was sick or something like that.

However, my mom was telling me about an idea that she and my dad had, and this may involve them paying us rent someday.

My mom has always wanted to live elsewhere for a while (for example, a year in Ireland, 6 months on the west coast to be closer to my sister & BIL, 6 months where they are now, maybe a year living in downtown Boston, etc.). Their house has an in-law apt. in it, and my mom was saying once that maybe someday when they''re in the position to do so, they may see if they could sell their house to my husband and me, and rent the in-law apt. from us. That way they''d always have a home base if they did choose to travel and/or spend part of the year living some place else. IF that ever happens (it may a pipe dream), then they''d pay us rent.

 

[Bia]

Date: 3/17/2010 4:09:47 PM
Author: Mrs Mitchell
Yes, it would help them to learn about budgeting and the value of money. I would put the rent they paid aside and give them it all back as a deposit towards a nursing home...

lol...


no, I would not.

 

[Maisie]

Date: 3/17/2010 4:17:58 PM
Author: Gailey

Date: 3/17/2010 3:04:54 PM
Author: Maisie
I have five children. When I am old I am going to stay with them in rotation so they don''t get tired of me! I am intending on being very badly behaved and opinionated. I can''t wait.

Fabulous idea Maisie. Make sure you never clean your room, regularly suck up and block the hoover with dirty socks and keep a varied selection of **** under your mattress. Oh and don''t forget the sleepovers!

hehe, and I will leave my false teeth on the side of my armchair and only put them in if we have company around.... and my used tena lady''s on the bathroom floor. Oh and hide all the cutlery in my handbag so I rattle when I walk. I will of course deny having the cutlery which will cause a scrumptious big argument.

 

[partgypsy]

Dancing Fire questions... Can''t imagine my parents moving in, simply because not their choice, so if one or both did, it would be because they are under some duress such as financial difficulty, or needed help in some form, so no, wouldn''t make them pay. Booze, cigs, and cable, they are on their own!

 

[jewelz617]

Of course! If they don''t like it, there''s a Best Western right down the road!

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 3/17/2010 3:04:06 PM
Author: janinegirly
DF, are you asking for any particular reason?

Answer is obvious No. Rent from working kids over 21, but not parents..that''s ridiculous.

on my other thread most of the people say parents should collect rent from their kids if they had a full time job while living at home. i was just wondering how people feel about collecting rent from their parents.